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What do you wish you knew about web development two years ago that you know today?

Posted by David Spark on October 5, 2011 @ 9:38 AM

After the first night of the Future of Web Apps Conference in Las Vegas, I asked the attendees, mostly web developers, what they wish they knew about web development two years ago, that they know today.

Dice Photo Contest – Win a Droid Bionic

At Silicon Valley Code Camp, Dice will be giving away a Droid Bionic. For a chance to win, pick up your fuzzy dice at the Dice table and tweet a picture with you and the dice or just the dice using the hashtags #gotdice and #SVCC. Term and conditions are here.

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World Famous Ward Bell To Fill In on Windows 8 Track, WinRT with JavaScript

Posted by Peter Kellner on October 4, 2011 @ 10:00 PM

For those who have never met or listened to Ward Bell speak, you are in for a treat at Code Camp this year. Ward, who is the CTO at IdeaBlade, will be filling in for the Microsoft WinRT guy who could not make it this year unfortunately. Ward’s skills are wide and deep. At MIX11 this year, Ward had one of the most popular sessions on designing UI’s for the Phone. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of similarities between programming for Windows 7 Phone’s and programming for Windows 8 Metro. Come to Wards session and see for yourself.

Using the Windows Runtime from JavaScript in Windows 8 (Saturday 1:45)

Double Agent: Silverlight meets JavaScript (Saturday 3:30)

Ward Bell doing a required ritual before a Microsoft keynote

Combined Link

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More Interesting Stats from ASSIA, One of our Platinum Sponsors

Posted by Peter Kellner on @ 10:19 AM

Thru dynamic spectrum management and ASSIA owned advanced signal processing techniques, ASSIA is leading the way to 100Mbps and beyond, ubiquitous internet access.

Not a fan of speed ? what about mobility ? With its latest announcement, ASSIA brings the power of Dynamic Spectrum Management to IOS4 devices with Expresse Pro, a mobile version of our lighthouse product, DSL Expresse.

http://www.assia-inc.com/about-assia/careers/

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Highlights from a 36 hour hackathon on social app development

Posted by David Spark on @ 9:37 AM

Here’s some of my coverage of SocialDevCamp Chicago 2011, where I was reporting for Dice. For more coverage and job news, check out Dice News.

The highlight at this year’s SocialDevCamp was a 36 hour developer hackathon, sponsored by Dice. I followed the entire event from beginning to end, needled the contestants on their lack of sleep and was ultimately impressed with what they delivered. Watch this short nine minute video as it summarizes the entire 36 hour event.

Dice Photo Contest – Win a Droid Bionic

Photo of dice at the end of video courtesy of Tom Tran.

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ASSIA, A SVCC Platinum Sponsor, Did not Invent the Internet, But Does Deliver it!

Posted by Peter Kellner on October 3, 2011 @ 9:24 PM

Did you know that your software development talents makes high speed Internet available to everyone?? Come be part of the digital revolution at ASSIA!

http://www.assia-inc.com/about-assia/careers/

A little about our history: Back in 2003, our founder Dr. John Cioffi, who was a Stanford professor, a successful business man not to mention widely regarded as the “Father of DSL,” founded ASSIA after his research proved that service providers could realize breakthrough improvements in the performance and profitability of their DSL networks through software innovations.

What’s ASSIA like today in 2011? ASSIA has more than 80 percent of the US market and over 15 percent of the world market in dynamic spectrum management tools. We have customers and offices on four continents. We work on the leading edge of DSL access technology, advancing software that leverages existing copper investments and delivers the fiber-like performance and reliability.

Here’s some stats for those of you like numbers:

More than 300 Million DSL subscribers today
Everyday, more people choose DSL for broadband than fiber, fixed wireless and cable combined
45 Million DSL lines are under contract with ASSIA
Own 85% of the US Market, 15% worldwide
Supporting growth of IPTV and massive expansion into wireless
Global company with global customers
72% of our staff have higher education degree’s
IEEE fellow’s on staff
Over 250 patents

Here are more stats to show that ASSIA is a winning company.

Broadband InfoVision 2011 – Award for Access Network Technologies
Red Herring Top 100 Winner – Recognized for innovations and outstanding achievement in telecommunications
The Economist Innovation Award – Dr. John Cioffi, 2010 Computing and Telecommunications winner for his advances in DSL Technology
Please stop by the ASSIA booth in the Sponsor’s area for more reasons why ASSIA is hiring software developers!

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What’s the best advice anyone ever gave you about development?

Posted by David Spark on @ 12:37 PM

Here’s some of my coverage of SocialDevCamp Chicago 2011, where I was reporting for Dice. For more coverage and job news, check out Dice News.

At the opening party at SocialDevCamp, I asked attendees, all developers, what the best advice anyone ever gave them about development. Here they are passing on really helpful advice. My favorite is the last little tidbit.

Dice Photo Contest – Win a Droid Bionic

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Code Camp Now Suggests Sessions you MIGHT want to Attend!

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 27, 2011 @ 7:11 AM

All Code Camp Sessions have multiple tags (like JSON,Java,C#,XBox,Gaming, etc.). These tags have been used for many years on many many sessions. You can imagine that when you indicate you plan to attend a session (or even that you are interested), you are tacitly telling code camp you are possibly interested in any sessions that might have that same tag in them. Well, we now surface that for you in the Sessions Overview page. If you are logged in and have indicated you plan to attend 1 or more sessions, almost guaranteed, you will now see in purple some suggestions.

Just to Illustrate this point, let’s say you are a first time code camp user. You have just created your account and as an avid game developer you find Bill Crow has a session titled Create a Kinect Powered Personal Robot with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio You indicate that you plan to attend it by checking that box on the Sessions page.

Notice that you have indicated you want to go to a session that has 7 different tags. C#, Kinect, NET, etc. Now, when you go to the Sessions Overview page, you will see that you have indicated you plan on attending Bills’s session by the words (Plan On Attending) next to his session, and also notice that tens of other sessions have been highlighted including “Introduction to the XBox Kinect SDK from Microsoft” This is because both of these sessions were tagged with Kinect.

Currently, lots of similar sessions are suggested, and since we have lots of general tags like (Mobile), quickly, almost all sessions are suggested. We are working on that and if you’ve got any ideas on how to restrict the choice to make better suggestions, please let us know by commenting below. Maybe together, we can make this really useful.

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Great Session On Robotics, Kinect-based hardware! Consumer Robots

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 26, 2011 @ 1:20 PM

If you have any interest in robotics, you’ll want to check this out: “Create a Kinect Powered Personal Robot with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio” This session introduces the just released Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta, available as a free download from www.microsoft.com/robotics. Bill Crow, is flying in from Redmond to talk about and Microsoft’s efforts and he will be bringing EDDIE with him. Check out his session at 10:45AM on Sunday.

RDS 4 includes the definition of an affordable, extensible Kinect-based hardware reference platform that supports technologies and scenarios for consumer robotics. Anyone can build a robot using this specification, and we’re also working with robotic hardware vendors that will offer compatible components, kits and preassembled units. Parallax is offering EDDIE, the first such kit based on this reference design. EDDIE and other reference platform implementations provide the foundation to inspire development and technology sharing. RDS 4 includes an accurate representation of the reference hardware platform in its built-in simulation environment. You can design, build and run your robotics application in the simulator before you even decide to buy a physical robot.

RDS 4 provides availability of Kinect services, built on top of the Kinect for Windows SDK. This unlocks some very powerful Human Robot Interaction (HRI) using both skeleton tracking and speech. The raw sensor streams are also available to support navigation algorithms and other advanced features. RDS 4 includes an obstacle avoidance service that fuses the Kinect input with the other proximity sensors to demonstrate how the sensor array can be used to intelligently navigate in a real-world environment.

In RDS 4 also provides the first implementation of robotics programming using Silverlight. This is a first step towards engaging a broader community of developers who might not have previously been involved with robotics, opening the door to a whole new range of robotics scenarios.

Come attend this session for an overview of RDS 4, some specific examples of how easy it is to create your own unique robotics applications, and to see a demo of EDDIE in action.

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Code Camp’s First Ever Career Track, Check it out!

Posted by Peter Kellner on @ 1:01 PM

We’ve posted our first ever career track this year, aptly titled "Career Track"; sponsored by Lumos Labs and Dice.com. This 8 session track includes one of the most popular sessions titled "How to break into Mobile Development" presented by Leslie Stevens-Huffman, career expert and contributing writer to Dice.com. Leslie has helped thousands of professionals find employment during her lengthy career in the staffing industry.

Another top session will be lead by Elaine Wherry, co-founder of meebo. The effectiveness of her “guerrilla” recruiting approach is evidenced by the caliber of employees meebo has hired. One summer, Elaine and her recruiters wrapped hand-written notes around meebo t-shirts and placed them on every chair in Stanford CS221, asking students to consider meebo as one of their post-graduation company choices. Elaine also wrote a spidering engine to pull JavaScript profiles and resumes from the Web.

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Mobile Viewers For IPhone,Android,Windows Phone 7 From Falafel Software

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 25, 2011 @ 8:30 PM

Falafel Software has once again delivered awesome integration with our Silicon Valley Code Camp Data and the Mobile World. This year, in addition to all the capabilities we all enjoyed last year, you can now update your personal agenda in these mobile devices by simply entering your EventBoard registration email on the Code Camp Registration Page. In other words, all you have to do is create an account on the mobile applications from Falafel (called EventBoard), then enter that account name on the Registration page of Code Camp.

To get EventBoard, scan the QR Code, visit http://www.eventboardmobile.com on your desktop or mobile device and follow the download link, or simply visit the Apple App Store, Android Market, or Windows Phone Marketplace and search for "EventBoard" by name. Below is the QR Code if you want to try and scan it now.

In addition. Falafel has put together a short video that gives you an introduction.

http://eventboardmobile.falafel.com/sf3/blog.aspx

Don’t forget, it’s really important to select what sessions you plan on attending. That information helps us put sessions that have the most interest in the largest rooms. We can’t guarantee everyone will be able to attend every sessions, but doing this, gives us a fighting chance! You can use any of these mobile apps to select interest. As always, you can select interest on the web site also. The pages that allow this (assuming you are logged) are:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SessionsOverview.aspx (standard html page)

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SessionPlanToAttendChart.aspx (fancy Sencha ExtJS 4.0 JavaScript Version)

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SessionPlanToAttendChartVP.aspx (same as above but customized for the IPad)

Looking forward to seeing you at code camp very soon!

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